1 Samuel 17:42 · JPS 1917

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance.

Who acts: Philistine, David · What happens: look, see, disdain, be · To what, where: David, shepherd, youth

This is 1 Samuel 17:42 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philistine, David), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 disdained	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 looked	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Philistine	det
4	Philistine	Philistine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disdained	advcl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
10	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 disdained	nsubj
13	disdained	disdain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 disdained	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 youth	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 youth	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 youth	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 youth	cop
19	but	but	ADV	_	21 youth	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disdained	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ruddy	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ruddy	cc
24	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 youth	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 withal	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 withal	cc
27	withal	withal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 youth	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 countenance	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 countenance	det
30	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 countenance	amod
31	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 withal	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 disdained	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Philistine		about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the Philistine not said here	David		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer david=Stimulus
3	disdain	past	David	shepherd		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a	past	David	a youth	but property	tree rules
5	be		David not said here			tree rules
6	be		David not said here		of a fair countenance	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיַּבֵּ֧ט הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֛י וַיִּרְאֶ֥ה אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד וַיִּבְזֵ֑הוּ כִּֽי־הָיָ֣ה נַ֔עַר וְאַדְמֹנִ֖י עִם־יְפֵ֥ה מַרְאֶֽה׃

1 Samuel 17:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1SA:496 of Mova's parse database.

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